Lachrymose Leeches Quotes & Sayings

The Lachrymose Leeches,' Aunt Josephine said, 'are quite different from regular leeches. They each have six rows of very sharp teeth ad one very sharp nose - they can smell even the smallest bit of food from far far away. The Lachrymose Leeches are usually quite harmless, preying only on small fish. But if they smell food on a human they will swarm around him — Lemony Snicket

Doc remembered how Polaroids have no negatives and the life of the prints is limited. These, he noticed, were already beginning to shift color and fade. — Thomas Pynchon

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature. — P.D. James

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true. — Robert Byron

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact. — Warren Buffett

You serve the best by doing what you love the most. — Maria Bello

Hitler did not know it, but Arthur was on his way! — Arthur Charles Evans

We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter. — Polybius

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors. — Richard Engel